Sentence examples for defendants wind from inspiring English sources

But the ending never varies: The defendants wind up in prison for crimes they never committed.

But prosecutors said that the acquittals in these cases were the exceptions, and that an overwhelming majority of defendants wound up being convicted.

Defendants change addresses, wind up their companies and ignore demands.

(He added, with a dig at Mr. Ashcroft: "Those of us who say so are not, in the attorney general's unfortunate and offensive words, 'giving ammunition to America's enemies.' ") Nevertheless, in an interview, Mr. Levy allowed that the rules the military has since promulgated give fairly broad protections to defendants, and "take the wind out of the sails of some of the critics".

"This was going to be a big, expensive case to try, and our top defendant was in the wind," she recalls.

In addition to shareholders, Enron will face claims by bondholders, trade creditors and commercial banks that lent it money including some of the same banks that may wind up as defendants in shareholder lawsuits.

The claim: He violated securities law by selling (at 5 cents each) 235,000 unregistered shares, received as a legal fee, in U.S. Wind Farming, a co-defendant that settled with the SEC.

"When the occupation was winding down, I assumed [the defendants] would all plead guilty because I didn't see any defense".

Then, 11 of the 14 defendants were hanged and their ashes scattered to the winds.

The breadth of the scandal is rocking governing institutions just as the groundbreaking trial of defendants in another scandal, a vote-buying scheme involving Mr. da Silva's former chief of staff, winds down.

For, as the war was winding down, Dennis found himself on trial for sedition; he was one of 29 defendants charged with undermining the morale of the armed forces.